Six hundred delegates from more than thirty of the leading communities of the United States are expected here tomorrow evening for the opening session at the Hotel Benjamin Franklin of the extraordinary session of the American Jewish Congress. The convention has been called for the purpose of discussing acute problems affecting the Jews of the United States and Europe and devising an immediate program to solve them.
On the eve of the special session, the Zionist-Revisionist Organization of America announced that it will not participate in the two-day meeting. The Zionist Organization of America, however, stated that twenty of the most prominent Zionists in the country will represent the organization.
REASONS FOR WITHDRAWAL
The statement of the Revisionists, who up to now have been in favor of the World Jewish Congress and have cooperated with the American Jewish Congress through its national board, announced that they had changed their attitude “in view of the fact that the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Congress has decided not to hold any elections which will prevent the transformation of the American Jewish Congress into a real democratic organization.” Because of this, the Zionist-Revisionists announced that it is “impossible for them to continue their connection with the American Jewish Congress in the future.”
A number of prepared reports will be submitted to the delegates but a large part of the time of the sessions has been reserved for debate on the floor by the delegates.
Conditions in Germany will be described by Prince Hubertus Loewenstein of Bavaria, militant anti-Nazi leader, who is now in this country.
A special report on immigration possibilities will be presented by Harold Fields, secretary of the League for American Citizenship.
Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the organization, will preside at the sessions of the convention. The delegates will be officially greeted on Sunday morning by Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Commissioner of Welfare, in behalf of Mayor J. Hampton Moore, who will be absent from the city.
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